Something about these ….

Twilight by John Masefield

Twilight is its and the far woods are dim
And the rooks call and cry
By the valley there’s the lamps and the mist and a star over all
Twilight it is and I travel the road with my friend



Anyway – Anon

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered
Love them anyway
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives
Do good anyway
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies
Succeed anyway
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable
Be honest and frank anyway
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow
Do good anyway
The biggest people with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest people with the smallest minds
Think big anyway
People favour underdogs but only follow top dogs
Fight for some underdogs anyway
What you spent years building may be destroyed overnight
Build anyway
Give the world the best you have got and you’ll get kicked in the teeth
Give the world the best you’ve got anyway


Anne Campbell – Verse dedicated to daughter

You are the trip I did not take
You are the pearls I cannot buy
You are my blue Italian lake
You are my piece of foreign sky


From The Ecstasy – A Collection of Poems, written by S Narayan

Make me a flame

To light a lamp, build a fire
Cup a shield to fight the wind
Coax the wick, spread the oil
Do not go gentle, brave the storm.

Peace & Reunion

What we will miss is a mist
A fragrance wafting and gone,
No name, no label, no ripple.

Wipe the tears from your eyes
Smile that smile of understanding
Let us laugh and chide as of old
And recall our days of gold

It was a paradise for fools
Sometimes lost, sometimes regained
In leaving the times behind,
See the silver lining beyond



Excerpts from Richard Bach’s Illusions

Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible but the mark of a fake messiah.

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The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change.

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You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future or a different past.

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There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.
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A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed.
It feels an impulsion… this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

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You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

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The original sin is to limit the ‘I’s. Don’t.

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(My favourite): Your conscience is the measure of the honest of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.

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Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you’re alive, it isn’t.

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I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life that will make me happy. Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing for a living.

(Another fav): Responsible is able to respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There’s only one person we have to answer, of course, and that is ourselves.